Quality Street. 1 May, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in The Urban Landscape | 1 Comment Tags: Londons streets · Buckingham Street. A rare view of Buckingham ...
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25 May, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Slug, snail, puppydog tail | Leave a comment Tags: London buildings J. Evans Dairy a Grade II listed building on the corner of Warren Street and Conway Street. Built 1793 and tiles circ. 1916 a rare surviving example of a Welsh dairy. It is a cut th...
Life imitating art – a cabbie’s diary 20 July, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Driven mad in London | Leave a comment Tags: London Olympics With the first Olympian week drawing to a close, with the predictability of a shortage of cabs on a wet Friday night, we have had a bumper week of mo...
3 April, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Thinking allowed | Leave a comment Tags: London museums Easter is nearly upon us and there you are with the kids at home and trying to decide how to amuse them. Shopping? Oxford Street will be like a rugby scrum. Sport? It will soon be wall to wall...
8 June, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Motoring matters | Leave a comment Tags: rickshaws The meticulous planning by LOCOG to allow the Olympic family unimpeded travel around London could be put in jeopardy by rickshaws. Cabbies must feel a sense of schadenfreude as their two biggest gri...
5 June, 2012 at 1:55 pm | Posted in Slug, snail, puppydog tail | Leave a comment Tags: River Thames The River Thames is etched into England’s psyche, over the years it has played a central role in the life of the nation, historically used for coronations, processions, funerals and as ...
Three families share the role of the Lord Great Chamberlain a title that has been in existence since Norman times. The present holder the Marquess of Cholmondeley – Lord Carrington’s family and the Earl of Ancaster stand in the wings chomping at the bit – in return for some minor coro...
6 July, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Thinking allowed | Leave a comment Tags: London's homeless When I did The Knowledge some years ago much of the time learning was spent on my bike in the evening. It wasn’t long before I realised that there were hundreds of homeless people sleeping r...
24 July, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Driven mad in London | 1 Comment Tags: London Olympics Just how do they do it? I mean when an actor is given a major part to play, just how so they remember their lines. I only ask because last weekend a mighty 76 page tome thudded on to my doormat...
